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Eskimo art
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Eskimo art. The art of the Eskimo Eskimo , a general term used to refer to a number of groups inhabiting the coastline from the Bering Sea to Greenland and the Chukchi Peninsula in NE Siberia.
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 peoples arose some 2,000 years ago in the Bering Sea area and in Canada. Traditional art consisted of small utilitarian objects, such as weapons and tools, as well as diminutive animals, carved and incised in walrus ivory, bone, and stone. The subjects of Eskimo art reflected their lives as hunters and fishermen, as well as their extensive mythology. Carved and painted wooden masks of the 19th cent. were used in various rituals. Modern Eskimo art dates from the late 1940s, when Canadians encouraged the development of art by native artisans working in traditional modes. Contemporary Eskimo art consists mainly of carved figures in smooth soapstone, ivory, and rough-surfaced whalebone, and lithographs printed with local stone that simplify and abstract the forms of the Eskimo hunters and their quarry.


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Cape Dorset advertises itself as the "Capital of Inuit Art," a name partially derived from the influence and existence of the West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative, an organization founded in 1959 to foster economic opportunities locally by marketing Inuit art to southern buyers and which has had a gallery in Toronto since 1978.
Of particular interest is the Qikiqtani Inuit Association's "Myths and Legends Project," which is an online collection of Inuit art, traditional stories, and personal interviews with Nunavummiut Elders collected by CBC North.
Thematic Links: Plays--Bats-- Migration--Reunion * Stones, Bones and Stitches: Storytelling Through Inuit Art (Lord Museum Book) Written by Shelley Falconer and Shawna White Toronto: Tundra Books, 2007 * $24.
 
 
 
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